Generation Antihero 3

The art of idiocity

Henry put his substitute weapon together when they were on their way to the nightclub. Together they sat in the passenger room of the limousine they still had from that casino mission. Ilus thought to have only rented it, but nobody ever picked it up, so he claimed it now. And Arrow drove them as promised. Therefore, Lucky sat in the tightest and skimpiest dress-up on the padded backseat. Zigz had a lot of complaints: "That's terrible". Lucky looked at his phone disinterested: "You wanna mention it a fifth time?". Still, Henry concentrated on his gun, but he murmured: "I'm so thankful not having to had to wear this stuff...". Ilus didn't like it himself: "Well, we did have a fitting top, but somebody decided to throw it off the bridge". Koi justified: "It was on fire! It's not my fault when somebody gets plastered in hair spray so much that their clothes catch fire, if Zigz lights up a cigarette one foot away!". Now Zigz had to defend himself: "As if this would be the greatest problem. Dear god, Lucky, aren't those pants extremely tight - too tight?".

"Again, I served in military", Lucky reminded, "I practically feel home. You really gave me the easiest task". Dexter, who sat beside him, made big eyes: "What happened in-?". Henry stopped him: "You better not ask". At least his outfit wasn't as short. With them in the limousine were also Faye and Emily. Faye was obviously the more talkative one: "I once had a boyfriend going to military. If you're short and young, you'll be the boy toy, is what I've heard". "Better than the poor guy that had no friends. Nobody even knew that he was there. I enjoyed my attention", Lucky crossed his arms. Ilus broke that off: "The last thing I want to hear, are Lucky's sexual stories. Especially not today". Lucky patted on Dexter's back: "You have the worst job today. Not only do you have to look out what's happening in general. You also have to keep an eye on me". Koi advised his best friend: "Don't throw your dignity away tonight".

Not too far away from the club Arrow parked and one by one they got out. Ilus and Henry went ahead, Koi and Faye followed, close to Zigz and Shark, Dexter and Lucky were last. Emily stayed at the entrance. The plan was: As soon as the attention was fully on the "show", Koi and Faye would sneak into the office and the guards spread across after them. Up until that point they didn't have any problems. Quickly Koi and Faye unpacked their devices and connected them to the servers. Everyone had a device that abled them to unnoticeably communicate with each other. When Ilus asked Dexter for a sitrep and the hackers heard a waking snoring behind them, they turned around alarmed. In the dark room they didn't saw the security guard sleeping on a chair at first. Simultaneously they turned down their volume of the earphones and looked at each other uncertain.

Dexter answered nervously: "I think you could say that everything goes according to plan. Nobody suspects anything, but I wouldn't have thought that Lucky would become so unruly. Maybe he's being a bit too rash". The technicians kept working before Ilus even commanded: "Make it quick, please". In the corridor leading to the office Shark and Zigz had absolutely nothing to do. Nobody came by and they didn't notice anything. In silence they squatted there and patiently watched the ceiling and walls. At the other side a security guard approached the office from the other way around. Ilus saw it when he peeked around the corner. Opening fire for one person would've only caused trouble. So he grabbed Henry, pressed him against the wall and kissed him intrusively. Henry didn't notice the guard, yet he didn't reject him. The guard came around, apologized and let them be, but the wall to the office was so thin that the security guard inside was woken by the blunt sounds.

Out of reflex Koi jumped up and knocked him unconscious right away. Faye smiled: "Wow, impressive". "No talking, just working", he sweated from typing this quickly. "Don't stress yourself, we're almost done", she waved off. For Koi it wasn't going quick enough anyway. He pulled a different small device from his pockets and connected it to his tablet hacking into the servers. Faye was well informed and shoved his hand away: "Are you nuts?! You'll cause a power outage!". "Are you afraid of a flashlight?!", he hissed at her. Another message from Dexter came through: "Oh god, he's undressing". Because Henry didn't let go of Ilus anymore, there were no further commands. Koi muttered to himself as he broke one of the servers open: "What is there much more to undress?". Faye tried to grab his arm: "Stop it! We have enough time!". "No touchy-wouchy of my precious body!", he growled and rearranged some cables. With his shoe he kept handling his tablet. Annoyed Faye looked at it: "Can I at least help you?". "Yeah. Remind me to kill you some day", he advised.

In the next moment the lights went out everywhere and the music stopped too. Dexter profited from it. Only until a shot fell and a glass near him shattered. He hid underneath the counter and tried to contact Ilus again: "Lights out, the people are going crazy! Instructions, please!". Koi informed: "We have what we need. Let's scram". He bashed the door open, so it smashed against Ilus' back head with full force. Henry drifted back to reality when Ilus fell to the floor unconscious. Koi shooed him: "Go, go, go!". He ran down the corridor himself. Before Faye followed him, she went into raptures: "So boisterous...". Thrown off track Henry picked Ilus up and accidentially bumped into Zigz while fleeing so that his nose cracked. Shark didn't see them and ran over all three of them.

It was a mircale that they even managed to get out, even though it took two minutes. Emily skeptically checked the time and was generally confused as to what was going on inside the building. Now cover didn't matter anymore either. They all ran towards the limousine together and pushed Arrow to hit the gas. The tires squeaked, the vehicle swayed around in a half drift, but they got away more or less unharmed. Emily asked right away, as she looked at the team with bruises and bleeding wounds: "Did you get caught? Who attacked you?". Shark, who was responsible for most bruises, just said meagerly: "Lights were out...". Koi stared at the floor pale: "We have the infos... More doesn't count...". Emily noted: "You look like you've seen a ghost". Slowly he nodded: "I've definitely... seen things...". Lucky rolled his eyes and pulled his stolen bath robe tighter: "It was dark as shit".

If Ilus wouldn't have been unconscious, he would've stopped where that conversation was going again. Henry asked Dexter with a ruptured lip: "Are you alright so far?". Intimidated he nodded: "Nothing happened to me. I just had to search for the exit for a while". "Thank god...", he exhaled. Zigz held his throbbing nose and his back at the same time. Shark apologized once more: "Sorry...". Light-headed he waved it off. From all of them he got it the worst. Emily was almost impressed: "How the hell did you do this? It was a simple plan and nothing should've gone wrong". Lucky puffed: "Well, we're just humans. I'm terribly not sorry that not everything works perfectly the way you imagined it in your little head. You're working together with Ilus here, don't forget that". "You carry the reputation of a wicked and dangerous gang. You killed Iceman", she annotated. Henry had to admit: "We're dangerously stupid".